Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

! Wneh group OF them rush across the
road, it seems SIS though spring gust
had Embossed an orchard of apple bios
SONS. But these children of the poor.
There is but little ring in their laughter,
andit stops quick, as though some
BITTER MEMORY TRIPPED 1T.
They have an old walk. They do
not skip or run up on the lumber lust for
the pleasure of leaping down, They never
bathed in the mountain stream. They
never waded in the brook for pebbles.
/ They never chased the butterfly across
the lawn, putting their hat right down
where It was Just before. Childhood has
| been dashed out of them. Want waved
| its wizard wand above the mauger of
/ their birth, and withered leaves are lying
where God intended o budding giant Of
battle. Once in while one of these chill
| dren gets out. Here is one, for instance.
( At ten years of age he is sent out by his
paren 8, who say to him: "Here is a
basket-now go off and beg and steal"
The BOY says: 81 can't steal" They
kick him into 4 corner. That night he
puts his swollen head into the straw; but
q voice comes from heaven, saying:
"Courage, poor boy, coursgei" Cover
ing up mis- head from the bestiality, and
stopping his ears from the cursing, he
gets on up better and better. He washes
his face clean at the public bydrant.
With few pennies got at running er-
rands he gets better coat. Rough men,
/ knowing rhat he comes from 3 low street,
/ say: "Back with you, you little villain,
10 the place where you came from" But
/ that night the boy says: "God help me,
/ can't go back" and quicker than ever
mother flew Of the cry of Il child's pain,
! the Lord responds from the heavens:
Courage, poor boy, courage" His
! bright face gets him position. After
awhile he is second clerk. Years pass
on aud he is first clerk. Years pass
on. The glory of young manhood is on
/ him. He comes into the firm. He goes
/ from oae business success TO another.
| He has achieved great fortune. He is
the friend of the church of God, the
| friend of all good institutions, end one
day he stands talking to the Board of
Trade or 70 the Chamber of Commerce.
People say 800 you know who that is?
/ Why, that is
4 MERCHANT PRINCE,
and ne was born on Elm street." But
God says in regard to him something
| better than that: "Tlese ere they
which came out Of great tribulation, and
/ had their robes washed and made white
/ in the blood OF the Lamb" 0, for some
one 10 write the history Of boy heroes
and girl herOines who have triumpded
over want and starvation, and filth and
rags. Yea, the record has already been
made-made by the hand of God; and
when these shall come at last with songs
end rel 1icing, it will take O very broad
/ banner TO hold the names of all the
battle fields on which they got the vic
tory.
| Some years ago rough-clsd, ragged
I BOY came into my brothers. office IN New
/ York, and said: "Mr. Talmage, lend ne
So" My brother said: "Who are you"
/ The boy replied al am nobody. Lend
me So" "What do you want 10 do with
! S5?" "WeI," the boy replied, "my
mother is sick and poor, and I want 10
/ 90 into the newspaper business, and l
shall get home for ner, and l will pay
you back.n My brother gave him
the So, of course never expected to see
/ it again; but he said: "When will you
it in six months, SIR Time went by,
and one day q lad came into my brothers.
office, and said: There's your So"
I
quired my brother. "Don't you remem-
Der boy came in here six months ago
and wanted to borrow SIS TO 60 into the
newspaper business?" so, yes. rsmem-
Der; are you the Iad?" eyes" he re-
Piled, az have got along nicely. have
got nice home for my mother (she Is
sick yeti, and 1 am rs we'll clothed as
you are, and there's your So" o, was
he not worth saving? Why, that lad IS
worth fifty UGH boys as l have sometimes
seen moving i'll elegant circles, never put
to any use
FOR GOD OR MAN.
Worth saving! go farther than that,
and tell you they are not
only worth saving, but they are being
saved. One of these lads picked up from
our streets, and sent west by a benevO-
lent society, wrote east, saying: II am
getting along first rate. | an On proba-
ton in the Methodist church. l shall be
entered as member the first of next
month. l now teach Sunday-sChCol
class IF eleven boys. l get elong first
rate with it, This is a splendid country
to make living in. If the boys running
around the street with blacking-box on
their shoulder, or bundle of papers IN
times we boys have out here, they
wouldn't hesitate about coming west, but
come the first chance they got" So some
by one humane and Christian visitation,
and some by another, are being rescued.
In one reform school, through which 1000
Of the little ones passed, 1895 turned out
we'll. In other words, only five OF the 1000
turned out badly. There are
thousands Of them VINO,
through Christian societies, have been
transplanted to beautiful homes all over
this land, end there are many who,
through the rich grace OF our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown. A
little girl was found in the streets of
Baltimore and taken into one of the re-
form societies, and they said to her:
"What is your name?n She said: "My
name is Mary" "What is your other
name?" She said: "I don't know" So
they TOOK her into the reform society, and
as they did not know her last name they
always called her "MarY Lost" since she
had been picked up out of the street.
But she grew on, and after awhile the
Holy Spirit came to her heart, and she
BECAME a CHRISTIAN CHILD,
and she changed her name; and when
suybody asked her what her name was,
she said: cit used 10 be Mary Lost, but
now, since I have become Christian, it
is Mary FOund.'
For this vast multitude, are we willing
to 20 forth from this mornings service
and see what we can do, employing ali the
agencies 1 have spoken of for the rectifi-
cation of the poisoned fountains? We
live in beautiful city. The lines have
fallen TO Us in pleasant places. and we